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It’s not even that we were definitely seeking vegan cupcakes for your birthday, but I learned that by the time I sought out cupcakes that didn’t contain petroleum or bug juice, the only grocery store that that had them available could just as easily make them vegan, so that I could try one too. (I’m a vegan; you and Mommy are vegetarians.)

I accept that it may seem a bit extreme that I special-ordered your cupcakes for your classmates to instantly munch down in celebration of your birthday.

But for me, I couldn’t see it any other way.

I would never seek out petroleum to add it to your food, nor would I capture and boil bugs to color what I give you to eat. That’s just ridiculous and absurd.

Yet it’s normal unless someone makes the effort to find the exception to the rule.

So with much pride in the fact that edible cupcakes were actually obtained (ones Mommy didn’t have to make herself) I delivered the dozen vegan (as well as, petroleum and bug juice free) cupcakes to your class, just as you and your friends were all waking up from your afternoon naps.

And with much pride I looked forward to seeing you wolf down your pre-birthday cupcake.

Instead… you were stoic.

That’s how you always are when I drop you off and pick up from school each day.

It’s like you get trapped in this limbo universe where you don’t know how to react to both me and your teacher.

It’s like you get confused by the jurisdiction of it.

Who’s in charge? Daddy or Ms. Lauren?

While your friends (like Sophie, featured up top) didn’t hesistate, you stared at the wall as long as I was there.